WarbyPicus

What Exactly I Have Been Up To, and What I have Been Teasing For A While

TL:DR- I wrote a new book. Not "am writing." It's written. Which means a very long overdue cleanup of the tiers. Weeaboo will lose it's specific tier in the future and will be available at a discounted rate.

So! Per the poll...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 74 SCRIPT THIS, NORMIE!

The ships sailing up the river made me smile. They probably shouldn’t have, I probably should be horrified or something, but honestly, they made me smile. Because the truth is that, no matter how sadistic, evil and monstrous a nation you are, th...

Weeaboo Chapter 73- Tidying Up For Guests

I stood outside the building, looking up at that blue Verton sky. I can understand the sky being different shades of blue at different times of the day and at different times of the year. Winter Afternoon Blue is not the same as Summer Afternoon B...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 72 Derailment

I found a quiet spot to sit and let my feelings wash over me. Four choices was an insanely luxurious lineup by the standards of gacha game quests. It strongly implied that the different routes would be at most superficially different, all leading ...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 71 Murder on the Verton Express

The young man was called Saccio and he was full of fire and idealism. Verton was a city on a hill, the shining light of the world. If it could free itself of foreign oppression, it would hoist a light for all of humanity. It could be the lighthous...

Today's Weeaboo Chap. will be delayed

Combo of travel and being sick. Ever have one of those things where you are lying down thinking "This is dumb, I should be up and doing," then you stand up and immediately remember why you were lying down in the first place? Like that. Expect it o...

Chapter 70- A Too Small Pie

Othai didn’t collapse to her knees in relief. She didn’t pound the earth or scream her triumph. I kind of wished she would. 

“Clean up the battlefield. Confirm there are no survivors. Usual reward for intel stands. Nobo...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 69- Nice

You know what I didn’t ever need to see? Long pikes skewering floundering soldiers as they tried to escape from a river. The story of this game, over and over, was hunger. The image of fishermen with spears was inescapable. The helplessness of i...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chapter 68- The Game Is Balanced… For Large Aquatic Mammals

I’ve never eaten a bitter almond, but the bad did smell ‘almond-y’ and there was a bitter, acrid tang to it and if I was mailing Truso a large sack full of what felt like powder…

“It's cyanide, isn’t it?”

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Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 67 The Road Is Lava

I had to figure the plan was compromised. Everybody seemed to know everything the second anyone said it, so I’d be crazy to think this would be any different. Gacha nonsense or not. I certainly wouldn’t trust my life to the dev’s laziness. I...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 66 Reliable Collaborators

[AUTHOR NOTE- short one today. For some reason, wrapping up this arc has been an absolute bear. It's past midnight. I'm heading for bed.]

Once we were boots down in Verton, I ran a quick check on my quest givers. Truso didn’t have any new ...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 65 Getting Over It

The hat was not particularly exquisite. It could be assembled by our hattiers not named Hatty. It was, to my profound satisfaction, a bucket hat. It conferred zero stat bonuses, but buffed my mood fishing by at least 15%. Maybe even 20%. I can’t...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 64 Better Living Through Worms

It’s not an exploit. Really. It’s not. If you think about it, I’m just doing what the whales do- using an established system to fully appreciate the game without the tedious necessity of grinding every last little thing. 

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap 63- The Thirteenth Wave Solves A Problem

Any question I might have had about the monsters being driven by some compulsion was answered immediately. The fall to the bottom of the moat snapped already dissolving bones, shattered skulls, it sounded like the hideous things were vomiting out ...

Weeaboo vol. 2 Chapter 62- The Thirteenth Wave Gets Smart

The monster’s vanguard were the Toads. I understood the logic. What harm is there in shoving the ranged units out first when their death is arguably more useful than their life? 

“Versai, Mrs. Hungry, stand by near the re...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 61 Never Been Sociable

I returned from Verton with mixed feelings. On the one hand, we were teeing up well. I was getting a handle on the systems the setting used, figured out how to make best use of Othai, even figured out some minor exploits. All good stuff. We knew b...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 60 Field Test

Games have themes. It’s not always logical or even coherent, but they have themes. This, of course, is to help them sell stuff. What that theme is varies wildly. The Spirit of Rebellion in the Persona games, and the core mcguffin o...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 59 Respectful Negotiation With Rats

“What does “sic ‘im me- ghruk!”

Rikka was on top of Yellow Feather, popping out of the shadow of the hill and leaping on him like an outraged spider. She yanked one of his arms to the side, making him shoot far wide. The o...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 58 Petty Plots

“How many dogs is “a whole bunch,” Rache?”

“Roundabout thirty.”

Presumably the dogs can scramble up the slope just fine, and obviously pack tactics are going to be highly effective in pinning down indi...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 57- Environmental Storytelling and the Limits of Creativity

It simply wasn’t possible to exist here and not be reminded that the enemy were monsters. It seemed almost insultingly simple to say- that the people here should have expected monsters to act like monsters. But this was notionally the w...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 56 The Road to an Empty Land

[[Author note- Putting a trigger warning for horror at this point is a bit absurd, but if you are feeling sensitive, I'd skip this chapter.]]

Black water crashed through the door but I was already on the roof, looking for a place to j...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 55 The Telephone Game

I shook off the emo thoughts. Mopey doesn't get things done. I took another look through the wall into the resort area. There were plenty of lower-star Awakened in there. You could spot the simpler costumes and repetitive movements. They weren’t...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chapter 54- A Commitment to Fair Play

[[AUTHOR NOTE- Slowly, painfully, I'm back. I'm going to try to get things back on schedule.]]

“A valid target, just not one in range. So you deliberately miss. But how-” Othai wasn’t getting it. Mrs. Hungry was looking with deep inter...

Delays/random posting times to continue for another week

I am really sorry about this. The holidays were lovely, and I got a festive flu in the spirit of the season. That kind of thing where you feel fine, but you are tired all the time, then cough like you are trying to evacuate a chunk of lung and if...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 53 The Twelf, Twelvth, Twf… The Eleventh-Plus-One Wave Tries Getting Froggy

I tried to spot a toad on the battlefield. It looked toad colored. A sort of yellow/green with bits of brown mixed in. It didn’t start becoming bright yellow until it built up a bellyful of acid to spit. Don’t really know what else to say abou...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 52 Fishing for Very Legitimate Reasons

I was standing on a dock. The dock was floating on a big pond. I had a chair, a bucket filled with water, and a fishing rod. At the end of the dock was a little shack with more rods leaning up against it, as well as some nets, and an old man enjoy...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 51 Cashing Out

[This is the chapter that should have posted Friday. I'm still playing catch up, and joy of joys, I have a Holiday Cold to go with the Holiday Cheer. Hoping you all are well.]

I sat in the dirt, looking up at the sky for a while. Nice blue s...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 50- A Good First Effort

“We have you trapped like rats in a box. Surrender! Lay down your arms and you will be allowed to leave with your lives!” The raider bellowed. He was wearing a fancy hat. Guess we found the officer.

“We are Genuda Mercenarie...

Weeaboo Vol. 2 Chap. 49 A Friendly Arrangement

[[Author's Note- Monday's chapter. Merry Christmas and/or the midwinter festival of your choice!]]

“We have a saying where I am from- “Nothing is as expensive as ‘Free.’” That being said, exchanging favors and making friends are tw...

And we are straight into the chaos- expect delays through new years

Real talk- right now I have the available attention span of a squirrel with a severe meth solution in a small town in Appalachia after Wallmart did a BOGO on .22LR ammo and 45% off on baby's first varmant gun. Which is to say, none. I don't expect...